Remove medicinal cannabis from Special Access Scheme, doctors tell TGA
Queensland doctors and pharmacists want medicinal cannabis removed from the special access scheme, saying the pathway is being used to bypass TGA assessment. AMA Queensland…
Queensland doctors and pharmacists want medicinal cannabis removed from the special access scheme, saying the pathway is being used to bypass TGA assessment. AMA Queensland…
Medical registration fees need to be reduced because of the inequity of doctors on extended parental leave or working part-time paying the same as high-earning…
GPs have accused urgent care clinics of providing inconsistent or non-existent clinical handover to patients’ usual doctors. The allegation is spelt out in a new…
A plaintiff lawyer has doused concerns that GPs could be sued for recording patients’ family history under proposed privacy law changes. The Federal Government wants…
The AMA has another “misleading and confusing” professional title in its sights, demanding a ban on dentists calling themselves ‘oral surgeons’. There are some 66…
Dr Nick Coatsworth says intergenerational comparisons — the ‘back in my day’-isms — can make it harder to address young doctors’ mental health and burnout. The former…
I am a middle-aged GP. As such, I have a while to go before I am likely to be subject to the mandatory health check…
The 5000 AMA WA members are part of the federal AMA again, almost eight months after being kicked out. But while the split is over,…
The AMA has backed a single set of criteria for patients to access Medicare health assessments for chronic disease, diabetes and heart health checks. The…
The AMA has called on the Medical Board of Australia to ditch any demand for mandatory cognitive screening of late-career doctors as part of its…
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